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is on College Mental health and transitional age youth, and she has a special interest in and works closely with minority populations, increasing access and decreasing mental health disparities among minorities and providing a culturally sensitive environment for patients and trainees. She is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Interim Program Director for the Residency Training, and the Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Dr. De Faria was born and raised in Brazil, where she received her medical degree from the Universidade de Brasilia, and moved to the United States in 1991 to participate in the competitive William J. Harrington Training Program for Latin America and the Caribbean at Jackson Memorial Hospital/ University of Miami, where she stayed for the next 2 decades, as a researcher, resident, and then faculty. Since she joined the University of Florida, she divides her time seeing patients, teaching, and participating in research. She has developed a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion curriculum across the four years of residency training and created a Research/ DEI elective rotation to foster research and diversity experience in trainees. She is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and serves as the Chair of the Committee of Women’s Mental Health, and a member of the Psychiatric News Editorial Advisory Board. Dr. De Faria received a Presidential for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). She was previously Vice Chair for Education and Director of Residency Training in Psychiatry at NYU. From 20012011, Dr. Bernstein also served as the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education and the Designated Institutional Official for ACGME accredited training programs at NYU. Dr. Bernstein is a Past-President of the American Psychiatric Association and served the Association as Vice-President, Treasurer and Trustee-at-Large and as the chair of multiple committees.

Commendation in 2022 for her work with the Committee on Women’s Mental Health, where she strives to use her intersectional lenses to connect people and ideas and raise topics that are important for overlooked groups. She is member of the American College of Psychiatrists and the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry and is part of the Leadership Council for the Florida Psychiatry Society, the Association for Women Psychiatrists, and a founding member of the Association for College Psychiatry.

Carol A. Bernstein, M.D. is Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Wellbeing, Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science and Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Health at the Montefiore Medical Center /Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is also a Senior Scholar in the Department of Education and Organizational Development

Dr. Bernstein completed medical school at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Following an internship in internal medicine at St. Luke’s/ Roosevelt Medical Center in New York, she completed her psychiatric residency training at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Bernstein is active in many national psychiatric associations in addition to the APA—these include the American College of Psychiatrists where she is currently the Treasurer of the Board of Regents, the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, among others. Dr. Bernstein has been a member of GAP since 1997. She chaired the Committee on Medical Education and in 2019 helped create and now co-chairs the GAP Media Committee. From 20102016, Dr. Bernstein served on the Board of Directors of the ACGME